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I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead Audiobook
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In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection. The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren’t. This approach doesn’t work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love. I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover’s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you’ve based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness. “Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore. This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” —Byron Katie
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"The Work of Byron Katie applied to relationships. So simple yet so profound. When you begin to ask "Is that true?" about your thoughts and expectations, you begin to look at your partners, friends, loved ones, yourself, in an entirely different light. Healing begins. Your world shifts."
— Hope (5 out of 5 stars)
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" If you want to have healthy relationships, live in peace and serenity with everybody and with yourself, buy this audiobook! I read this book a few years ago and I think that is treasure that everybody must have. That's why I wanted to have it in audiobook version too. "
— IULIA POPEL, 9/20/2022 -
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Melissa Bermstein, 7/11/2021
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" Set aside the beliefs handed down from the past. Go to the edge where comfort leaves you lonely. Tremble not in that dark place. Listen to the words and allow them to fall gently upon your souls ear. Open and remember. "
— Mourning Sun, 11/8/2019 -
" Thank you Katie for writing such a wonderful book. It found it's way to me at the perfect time in my life. The Work is so simple, yet so profound, I reccomend it to anyone that would like to be freed from negative thoughts, fear and insecurty. Thanks again :) "
— Joella, 2/7/2014 -
" I just read about her in Oprah magazine and this was the only book of hers I could get at the library. I think her first book would have been a better pick but I like her 4 questions and am just trying to get what ever out of it I can. This book is about love and approval seeking and i thought I was not to bad off in that dept but this makes you look at how deep it is. "
— Deborah, 1/26/2014 -
" That your perception can change everything. I did stumble on the quote:"It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship," I still can't get my head around that. "
— Kelly, 1/16/2014 -
" Simple, yet powerful concept; Question your troublesome thoughts, because they are usually wrong and have nothing to do with reality...learn to accept rather than fight reality. Love what is...and you will experience happiness instead of swimming upstream to try and get it... "
— Heather, 1/5/2014 -
" Life really is so much simpler when you stop seeking the approval of people... "
— Ebony, 1/1/2014 -
" Like Loving What Is, I would probably have to give this another read to tell exactly how I feel about it. I read it way back at some point. It was quite intriguing. "
— Elena, 12/28/2013 -
" This book is so helpful! I am learning how to just be me! Thanks Byron Katie! "
— Joy, 12/26/2013 -
" I love byron katie's stuff. Her approach really works for me. It helps me make sense of my life and my relationships. It helps me learn how to be responsible for myself and let go of trying to be responsible for everyone else. "
— Karla, 11/27/2013 -
" one of the few self help books that really helped me. I found it powerful, honest and supremely kind. I could read this book over and over again and find something new and helpful each time. "
— Cynthia, 11/9/2013 -
" I love this one! It's even better than Loving What Is. "
— Pam, 11/9/2013 -
" A useful book with a very specific method for handling some of the troubling situations in this life. Wriiten in a very clear and concise language, with examples that can apply to most of us. "
— Marie-pierre, 10/6/2013 -
" Changed my way of looking at my behavior, for sure. "
— Carole, 5/27/2013 -
" If you're not gonna dig "the work", which is all in all a good mode of meditation, this will in the least give some anecdotal insight into many people's most basic motivation in relationships, and offer some gentle and powerful exercises that explore the other side of co-dependence. "
— Shahaf, 10/3/2012 -
" This book is fantastic. I actually listened to it as an audiobook. If you understand where she is coming from this book can transform your life. "
— Mary, 7/5/2012 -
" The title says it all. Another life-changing book. "
— Alaina, 3/7/2012 -
" Love the truth and the truth will set you free. This shows what that means on a personal and emotional level. The Work she describes has changed the way I look about every negative emotional experience, from small annoyances to the more long-term, relationship-weakening resentments. "
— Jay, 3/1/2012 -
" Listening to an audio CD of the book...at times a little strange, but helpful nonetheless. "
— Ashley, 1/2/2012 -
" This is one I just have to periodically reread... "
— Cindy, 12/30/2011 -
" If you're in to becoming a better, more sane, calm person, this is a book for you. I love the way this woman thinks. She can take your most serious fear and ask questions to have you laughing at yourself in less than 3 minutes. Brilliant. "
— Genevieve, 10/30/2011 -
" More on Katie's theme, there is power and peace in investigating your painful thoughts. And here's a hint: they are always untrue at their core. "
— Sherril, 9/8/2011 -
" A new age budist influenced book? It has some things that I Will keep with me. I think most of the books like these can give you something, but you cant embrace everything in them. I enjoyed it. "
— Annaklara, 8/3/2011 -
" um, i am (mildly?) obsessed with byron katie. i highly recommend this book. her videos are cool too. "
— Megan, 6/27/2011 -
" Love the truth and the truth will set you free. This shows what that means on a personal and emotional level. The Work she describes has changed the way I look about every negative emotional experience, from small annoyances to the more long-term, relationship-weakening resentments. "
— Jay, 4/11/2011 -
" This is one I just have to periodically reread... "
— Cindy, 1/17/2011 -
" Awesome book! First read from this author and cannot get enough. "
— Tiffany, 9/23/2010 -
" That your perception can change everything. I did stumble on the quote:"It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship," I still can't get my head around that. "
— Kelly, 9/6/2010 -
" I'm going to read this again. So much useful, helpful material. Highly recommend it. "
— Beverly, 4/23/2010 -
" What an amazing book! the turn-arounds change the way I look at things...hopefully it will make me a better person, a more patient and understanding, compassionate person. "
— Heather, 2/1/2010 -
" I started listening to this Book on CD. It was helpful to me after I listened for a short while, but then it became repetitive. I'm glad I listened, because I got a helpful tip in the process. But I didn't finish it, so I don't know what I would've thought had I done so. "
— Dianne, 12/9/2009 -
" This book was hard to read but I found myself reading sections over and over again. <br/>I love her perspective on life. "
— Grace, 10/13/2009 -
" Loved it as much as the others from this author "
— Leslie, 8/30/2009 -
" I love this one! It's even better than Loving What Is. "
— Pam, 7/22/2009 -
" More on Katie's theme, there is power and peace in investigating your painful thoughts. And here's a hint: they are always untrue at their core. "
— Sherril, 7/8/2009 -
" The title says it all. Another life-changing book. "
— Alaina, 7/2/2009
About Byron Katie
Byron Katie, a speaker and author of nine books, discovered self-inquiry in 1986 and developed her remarkable method for finding happiness and freedom, called the Work. She has been traveling around the world for more than a dozen years teaching The Work directly to hundreds of thousands of people. In addition, she has introduced The Work into business settings, universities, schools, churches, prisons, and hospitals.
About Kimberly Farr
Kimberly Farr is an actress and winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration. She has appeared on Broadway and at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, and the American Place. She created the role of “Eve” in Arthur Miller’s first and only musical, Up from Paradise, which was directed by the author. She appeared with Vanessa Redgrave in the Broadway production of The Lady from the Sea and has acted in regional theaters across the country, including a performance in the original production of The 1940’s Radio Hour at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage.